Original Mercury 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper in pressurization suit, 1963 @facethenation
Winston Churchill painting at the Surf Club in 1946, Miami Beach, Florida @facethenation
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
American gymnast McKayla Maroney won a team gold medal and a silver medal for the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics @facethenation
Wernher von Braun strolls on the Moon, or rather, an Apollo 11 landing site mockup at the 1969 South-Eastern Fair in Atlanta @facethenation
Actor and comedian Robin Williams died two year ago today, on August 11, 2014
Julia Roberts, Steven Spielberg and Robin Williams on the set of Hook, 1991 @facethenation
Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play tennis on the helipad of the Burj Al Arab hotel on February 22, 2005 @facethenation
Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt in the Apollo 9 Lunar Module, 1969 @facethenation
David Greenglass was an atomic spy 🕵 for the Soviet Union who worked on the Manhattan Project, the wartime project to develop the first atomic weapons @facethenation
David Greenglass leaves New York Federal House of Detention on November 16, 1960, after ten years in jail @facethenation
Beginning as a child star, trend-setting actress and singer Googoosh became one of the most popular Iranian celebrities in the 1970s @facethenation
Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary dance at an inaugural ball January 20, 1997 in Washington @facethenation
Neil Armstrong operating the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator reaction controls simulating the in X-15 flight at high altitudes, 1956 @facethenation
Armstrong still in the X-15's cockpit, smiling after a flight. His first flight came on November 30, 1960. In September 1962 Neil was offered a position with NASA's astronaut corps 👽 @facethenation
Julia Child 🔪 on the set of The French Chef in 1970. Her first television appearance was on her local public television station, WGBH, on a show called I've Been Reading @facethenation
Julia had many "Julia-isms" 🙌 but one of our favorites is: "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude" @facethenation
Heinz Guderian and Semyon Krivoshein at a Soviet-German victory parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939 during the invasion of Poland in the city of Brest-Litovsk @facethenation
In the fall of 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet premier to visit the United States. Khrushchev in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington @facethenation